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To mark National Senior Citizen’s Day, here are some of the companies using the immersive power of virtual reality to make a difference.
A UCLA study yielded promising results.
Virtual reality headsets, aimed at reducing the pain of women in labour, are being trialled.
The technology holds vast potential for insights into the workings of human brains
This woman is one of the first people in the world to undergo virtual reality therapy while undergoing a medical procedure.
New looks at challenges through fresh eyes. That’s especially true for midwife Dr Donovan Jones and his team, Shanna Fealy and Associate Professor Rohan Walker. With the assistance of Craig Williams of the IT Innovation team they seek to bring Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality to the age-old experience of childbirth—and through these technologies, teach future midwives to save newborn lives.
From my office next door to the scanner, I heard how traumatic the procedure was. I found a solution in the latest technology
Joshua suddenly became paralysed last year. He's undergoing rehab, and in the meantime, VR has allowed him to trek Spain's beautiful El Camino trail.
The CAREN system, a biomechanical technology that uses virtual reality, is helping University of Melbourne researchers to treat, and even prevent, injuries.
Putting on VR goggles and virtually swimming with dolphins can ease some patients’ pain, new research shows. Hospitals across the country are giving VR a try.
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The study highlights the potential of new technologies to help diagnose and monitor conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, which affects more than 525,000 people in the UK. In 2014, Professor John O’Keefe of UCL was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for ‘discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain’. Essentially, this means
Virtual reality technology is edging its way into the medical world, but questions are now being raised about the ethics of exposing vulnerable patients to what can be a very powerful, immersive video experience.
Sophisticated technology embedded in a virtual reality headset can be transformed into a medical device given the right software behind it.
It’s more than a distraction, researchers say. It’s more like a brain hack that occupies the brain so fully that it has no room to process pain sensations at the same time.
A virtual reality experience, called “Becoming Homeless,” is helping expand research on how this new immersive technology affects people’s level of empathy.
This healthcare tech startup says that virtual reality (VR) will change the patient care in the next three years.
Doctors turn to VR to treat anorexia and bulimia.
Music therapy and technology researchers are using virtual reality to allow quadriplegics to sing together to boost their breathing and connectedness.
Fran gracefully glides around the grand ballroom, sparkling pink ball gown flowing at her heals and the firm grip of her son’s arm around her waist. They are surrounded by friends and family as they elegantly move around the room in perfect harmony, looking as though they must have practiced for hours. Fran is celebrating her 90th birthday in style, and although Parkinson’s disease has limited her mobility over the last decade, today technology is enabling the joy of movement she knew when she was 20.
The mind can play tricks on your body. Luckily, VR can play tricks right back.
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